“Were you and Mr. Corbyn friends, Mr. Starmer?”

Optimistically asked a truth-seeking reporter:

but the North Wind it blew, so he huffed and he puffed,

and the South Wind it blew, as he thought it all through,

then the East Wind it blew, yes, that question was tough,

then the West Wind it blew; that decided the truth:

“Yes, of course we were”, croaked he with a cough.

Again, ...

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Illegal is a concept with which the UK’s familiar:

Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing and Theft: they all come to mind,

but our legal eagle of Human Rights is the pot

who’s deigned to call the Trumpian kettle black:

protest genocidal arms, Starmer will imprison you,

yes, the fog of war’s the friend he hides behind:

Afghanistan and Iraq we...

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The 1st stanza asks a question to which the answer is, of course, “No”. John Milton wrote Areopagitica, an argument against censorship.

Sadly, in the Britain of 2025, poets, artists, journalists, religious leaders and The Man on the Clapham Omnibus now face routine harrassment by the UK Government and the police, enduring arrest and imprisonment without charge or trial: and for what? for oppos...

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